Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:46:03 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Quoting
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 11:42 PM 4/21/2005, you wrote:
>At 12:50 PM 4/21/05, Gayle Surrette wrote:
> >Except I've been top posting for the last 35 years and when I started
> >top posting was the standard and in many places my last 10 jobs it
> >was required for internal email.  So I have to wonder where this
> >netiquette issue developed.
>
>I just checked with a friend who administered the first node of the BITNET,
>at City College (and, obviously, was working with networked computers well
>before that).  From the time that there was software that quoted replies
>were written under the quotation.
>
>Elspeth

Who effing cares!  It is a matter of convenience.  It is sometimes more
convenient to post at the top, and sometimes more convenient to post at the
bottom, and sometimes more convenient to intersperse.  In this post, it
makes more sense to post at the bottom because the first person who replied
chose the bottom.  If the first person to reply had chosen the top, then
*that* would have made more sense.  Come on guys, we're not computers we
are capable of actual thought.  Ghod gave us brain cells for a reason.

Candy

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